Watch it again. Neville doesn't disagree with either of those points.
On Lukaku (2:34), he says that the money is there to replace him but we need to buy the right player. He was in favour of buying Dybala, but only if Dybala had been in favour of United.
On Herrera, he never disagrees that he was our second best midfielder (4:34), but he says that McTominay can do almost as good a job if he plays 30 games.
McKola was the rude one. Listen at 9:56. He was supposed to ask one question, but kept interrupting the answer.
Neville said we had money to replace Lukaku but McKola's point was why didn't we and not doing so was ineptitude from the board. We've known Lukaku was leaving for months. McKola's expected the board to be more sensible and diligent in the market and that he thinks Woodward didn't trust anyone around him to spend it. In a way Neville alluded to this by bringing up transfers Jose wanted which we overruled by the board.
Then goes on to build a straw man about how United were never going to get the top 10 players in the world, something no reasonable fan demanded. McKola interjected and said he didn't expect that but pointed out that we've lost Rom, Herrera and Fellaini and have no replacements.
Neville then responds that we're not going to spend it on 32yos (wut) and bizarrely says if Varane was available for £130m the Glazers would sanction the deal in an instant, get real ffs.
Therein lies the problem - we only seem capable of spotting the most obvious talent that the average fan at the pub could tell you is good. Neville continues making excuse after excuse for our clusterfeck of a window and brings up Lukaku's weight and says all Herrera did was huff and puff.
At this point he's clearly flapping and tries to embarrass McKola by calling him out on past tweets such as when we signed Di Maria. Everyone was delighted with those types of signings at the time but we've learned from our mistakes and to McKola's credit he did mention earlier that he didn't want mercenary types. Neville's tactics here are solely to try to belittle and demean McKola in an attempt to add more credence to the crap he's spouting which is poor form.
He tried to downplay Herrera leaving by saying he's nothing special and there are loads of similar calibre players out there which McKola swiftly refuted by saying there aren't at United. He compared McTominay to Herrera but let's face it he's not at that level yet. Herrera is no world beater but he's clearly a better player than anything we have in midfield besides Pogba. We were told any outgoings would be replaced. They weren't. We get the
"Don't worry lads, (insert player we already have) will be like a new signing!)" nonsense rammed down our throats.
I like McTominay to let's do a small comparison from last season from the Premier League game when things began to slide. United's record in the last five games with McTominay playing was no wins, two draws* and three losses.
*one draw was against Chelsea was subbed on after 81 mins
Herrera's was one win and two draws, no losses during the same time frame.
We could argue all day about how much value this small sample size has but it doesn't fit with the narrative of McTominay being at Herrera's level and that Ander won't able a loss to our team. It was clear Herrera was pivotal to Ole's system while on that great run and his injury coincided with us slipping into freefall despite McTominay being present in the team during that period. It's pure negligence to go into the season with the midfield options we have when it was abundantly clear that even with Herrera we needed to strengthen. It defies all logic.
Our expectations are being lowered every year and it's not acceptable for a huge club like United. It would be fantasy to expect a title challenge but it shouldn't be too much to ask for more investment in areas where we're severely devoid of quality. The rebuild was never going to happen in one window but at the same time we can't afford to adopt Wenger's 10 year plan model. Another season out of CL will hit us hard financially and further diminish our hopes of attracting top talent to play Europa League.
We're going into the season hoping and praying that a man who doesn't want to be here can be consistent. A loss of form or injury would kill our creativity and whatever control of the midfield we had.